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Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers.
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together a wide range of traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge, including science, are messy, spatial and local....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; From rationality to messiness: Rethinking technoscientific knowledge; 'On with the motley': The contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces; Talk, templates and tradition: How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans; Tricksters and cartographers: Maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space; Pacific navigation: An alternative scientific tradition; Making malaria curable: Extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine; Messiness and order in turbulence research.
- Conclusion Rationality, relativism and the politics of knowledgeBibliography; Index.